There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.